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Don't Just Do Something, Sit There
A Mindfulness Retreat with Sylvia Boorstein

Boorstein, Sylvia

A lively, down-to-earth guide to your own meditation retreat
by beloved mindfulness meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein.
Presenting what Jon Kabat-Zinn has called "endearingly
personal mindfulness wisdom," she offers a three-day retreat
plan accompanied by timeless lessons — always grounded in real
life — on how anyone can achieve calm, clarity and joy through
meditation practices.

Meditation for Life

Batchelor, Martine and Batchelor, Stephen

This book one of the most well-written,
informative and comprehensive--and certainly the most beautiful--meditation
book on the market.

What Is Meditation?
Buddhism for Everyone

Nairn, Rob

Nairn, a Buddhist in the Tibetan
tradition trained by, among others, the Dalai Lama and the
Gyalwa Karmapa, has written a very capable guide to the essentials
of modern Mahayana Buddhism and its derivative meditational
practices. Inevitably influenced by Western ideas, Nairn's
text is nevertheless a clearly written, engaging, and respectful
primer in both the religious attitudes and the spiritual
practices of Buddhists in the Tibetan tradition. This should
prove a helpful reminder for practitioners and a ready guide
for beginners. Recommended for most collections strong in
religious studies.

Awakening the Mind:
Basic Buddhist Meditations

Geshe Namgyal Wangchen

Based on the teachings of the
Tibetan saint Tsong Khapa, these techniques help replace depression,
anger, and other forms of mental pain with tranquility, compassion,
and wisdom.

Be an Island The Buddhist Practice of Inner
Peace

Ayya Kemma

Khema's work is the last offering of an American-born Buddhist
nun who died in 1997; her calm, soberly written treatise reviews
the path to enlightenment as a form of the search for personal
and inner peace. Yun provides valuable insight into the distinct
practices and traditions of Chinese Buddhism, still little
known in the West. Both of these publications are recommended
for libraries where interest in Eastern spirituality is strong.

Path is the Goal

Chogyam Trungpa

Published now for the first
time, the teachings given here on basic meditation, Shamatha
and vipashyana, mindfulness and awareness, provide the foundation
that every practitioner needs to awaken as the Buddha did.
Chogyam Trungpa was renowned as master of meditation and for
his unique gift for teaching the Dharma to Westerners.

Practical Teachings and Exercises on How to Live
in Harmony, Peace and Happiness

Tarthang Tulku

This new compilation of teachings
features beautiful design, photography, art and illustrated stories
whilst addressing all aspects of meditation: what it is, attitudes
that help us benefit from it and how to sustain a satisfying
practice.

Still The Mind, An Introduction
to Meditation

Watts, Alan W

During the last decade of his life,
Alan Watts lectured extensively as he traveled across
the country. He often accompanied his talks with guided meditation
sessions and contemplative rituals designed to instruct his
audiences in the art of meditation; Still the Mind is drawn
from recordings of those lectures, meditations, and rituals.
Watts's son Mark edited more than 800 hours of audiotapes
to create this compilation of his father's teachings. The
tape features Alan Watts's thoughts on the purity of everyday
experience and the path of soulful contemplation. It concludes
with Watts leading a variety of sitting meditations. Still
the Mind gives listeners insight into the essence of meditation,
which Watts defined as the art of being completely centered
in the here and now.

Calm and Insight:
Buddhist Manual for Meditators

Khantipalo Bhikkhu

This manual, by an experienced Buddhist, has been written
so that it will be easitly accessible also to the reader who
knows nothing about meditation, but also contains knowledge
and experience that can be gained only through practice.

Only a Great Rain"
A Guide to Chinese Buddhist Meditation

Master Hsing Yun and Tom
Graham

Be an Island and Only a Great Rain are among the most worthy
of these. Khema's work is the last offering of an American-born
Buddhist nun who died in 1997; her calm, soberly written treatise
reviews the path to enlightenment as a form of the search for
personal and inner peace. Yun provides valuable insight into
the distinct practices and traditions of Chinese Buddhism,
still little known in the West.